EVERY DECEMBER, AS THE YEAR DRAWS TO A CLOSE, IT IS MY SAD DUTY TO LIST THE NOTABLES WHO LEFT US THIS YEAR.
Take a moment to read the names and remember.
- PATTI PAGE, singer "Tennessee Waltz", "Doggie in the Window"
- CHARLES CHILTON, BBC radio writer/producer/presenter "Journey Into Space"
- SAMMY JOHNS, singer "Chevy Van"
- NED WERTIMER, actor "The Jeffersons"
- MARIANGELA MELATO, actress "Swept Away", "Flash Gordon"
- NAGISA OSHIMA, director "In the Realm of the Senses"
- CONRAD BAIN, actor "Maude", "Diff'rent Strokes"
- PAULINE PHILLIPS, columnist "Dear Abby"
- MICHAEL WINNER, director "Burke and Hare", "Death Wish"
- SALLY STARR, TV host
- RALPH COLLIER, radio host "Collier at Large"
- BERNARD HORSFALL, actor "Dr. Who: The War Games", "Dr. Who: The Deadly Assassin"
- LEROY "SUGARFOOT" BONNER, singer "Ohio Players"
- PATTY ANDREWS, singer "The Andrews Sisters"
- ED KOCH, politician "Former Mayor of New York"
- JOHN KERR, actor "Pit and the Pendulum", "South Pacific"
- REG PRESLEY, singer "The Troggs"
- TONY SHERIDAN, singer "My Bonnie"
- RICHARD BRIERS, actor "The Good Life"
- ELSPET GRAY, actress "Solo", "The Black Adder"
- OTIS "DAMON" HARRIS, singer "The Temptations"
- DAN TOLER, guitarist "Allman Brothers Band"
- C. EVERETT KOOP, former U.S. Surgeon General
- RICHARD STREET, singer "The Temptations"
- ADAM STRANGE, director
- VAN CLIBURN, pianist
- RAY CUSICK, designer "Doctor Who", "The Daleks"
- BONNIE FRANKLIN, actress "One Day at a Time"
- BOBBY ROGERS, singer "The Miracles"
- ALVIN LEE, guitarist "Ten Years After"
- DEL TENNEY, director "I Eat Your Skin", "Horror at Party Beach"
- CLAUDE KING, singer "Wolverton Mountain"
- CLIVE BURR, drummer "Iron Maiden"
- MALACHI THRONE, actor "Star Trek"
- BOBBY SMITH, singer "The Spinners"
- FRANK THORNTON, actor "Are You Being Served?"
- JAMES HERBERT, author "The Rats"
- RISE STEVENS, soprano
- RICK HAUTALA, author "Night Stone", "The Mountain King"
- CHINUA ACHEBE, author "Things Fall Apart"
- RICHARD GRIFFITHS, actor "Harry Potter series", "Gormenghast"
- PHIL RAMONE, record producer
- BOB CLARKE, artist "Mad Magazine"
- MILO O'SHEA, actor "Theatre of Blood", "Barbarella"
- JESUS FRANCO, director "Count Dracula", "Dracula vs. Frankenstein"
- ROGER EBERT, film critic
- CARMINE INFANTINO, artist "The Flash", "Batman"
- BASIL COPPER, author "Dark Things", "Necropolis"
- MARGARET THATCHER, politician "Former British Prime Minister"
- ANNETTE FUNICELLO, actress/singer "Beach Blanket Bingo"
- JONATHAN WINTERS, comedian
- SIR COLIN DAVIS, conductor
- RICHARD LEPARMENTIER, actor "Star Wars"
- PAT SUMMERALL, TV sportscaster
- ALLAN ARBUS, actor "M*A*S*H*", "Coffy"
- RICHIE HAVENS, singer
- GEORGE JONES, singer "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
- DEANNA DURBIN, singer/actress
- RAY HARRYHAUSEN, filmmaker/special effects "Jason and the Argonauts"
- BRYAN FORBES, actor/director "League of Gentlemen", "The Stepford Wives"
- DR. JOYCE BROTHERS, psychologist/TV personality
- DICK TRICKLE, NASCAR driver
- ALAN O'DAY, singer/songwriter "Undercover Angel"
- RAY MANZAREK, musician "The Doors"
- STEVE FORREST, actor "S.W.A.T."
- MARVIN JUNIOR, singer "The Dells"
- JEAN STAPLETON, actress "All In the Family"
- MANDAWUY YUNUPINGU, singer "Yothu Yindi"
- FRANK LAUTENBERG, New Jersey Senator
- DEACON JONES, football player "Los Angeles Rams"
- JOEY COVINGTON, drummer "Jefferson Airplane"
- ESTHER WILLIAMS, actress "Neptune's Daughter", "Bathing Beauty"
- MAXINE STUART, actress "Twilight Zone - Eye of the Beholder"
- RICHARD RAMIREZ, serial killer
- HARRY LEWIS, actor "Key Largo", "Gun Crazy"
- IAIN BANKS, author "The Wasp Factory"
- SLIM WHITMAN, singer "Indian Love Call"
- KIM THOMPSON, editor/publisher "Fantagraphics", "The Comics Journal"
- JAMES GANDOLFINI, actor "The Sopranos", "In the Loop"
- MICHAEL BAIGENT, author "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"
- ELLIOT REID, actor "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "CBS Radio Mystery Theater"
- GARY DAVID GOLDBERG, writer/producer "Family Ties"
- RICHARD MATHESON, author "The Shrinking Man", "I Am Legend", "Twilight Zone"
- BOBBY "BLUE" BLAND, singer
- ALAN MYERS, drummer "Devo"
- LAU KAR-LEUNG, director "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin"
- JIM KELLY, actor "Enter the Dragon", "Black Belt Jones"
- BOB CARTER, TV horror host "Sammy Terry"
- ANNA WING, actress "EastEnders"
- ALAN WHICKER, TV host "Whicker's World"
- MEL SMITH, actor/comedian "Not the 9 O'clock News", "Brain Donors"
- HELEN THOMAS, journalist "White House press corps"
- J.J. CALE, songwriter/musician "After Midnight", "Call Me the Breeze", "Cocaine"
- EILEEN BRENNAN, actress "Private Benjamin", "Murder By Death"
- MICHAEL ANSARA, actor "Star Trek"
- GEORGE DUKE, jazz musician
- JACK CLEMENT, singer/songwriter/producer "Sun Records"
- KAREN BLACK, actress "Trilogy of Terror"
- HAJI, actress "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"
- EYDIE GORME, singer
- LOUIS KILLEN, folk singer
- AMY WALLACE, author "The People's Almanac", "The Book of Lists"
- HENRY POLIC II, actor "When Things Were Rotten", "Batman: The Animated Series"
- BERT LANCE, politician
- ELMORE LEONARD, author "Jackie Brown", "3:10 To Yuma", "Get Shorty"
- MARIAN MCPARTLAND, jazz musician
- TED POST, director "Hang 'Em High", "Magnum Force"
- DENNIS FARINA, actor "Snatch"
- JULIE HARRIS, actress "The Haunting", "East of Eden"
- GERARD MURPHY, actor "Dr. Who: Silver Nemesis", "Father Ted", "Batman Begins"
- DAVID FROST, TV broadcaster "That Was the Week That Was", "The Frost Report"
- FREDERICK POHL, author
- LOUISE CURRIE, actress "You'll Find Out", "Voodoo Man", "Adventures of Captain Marvel", "Citizen Kane"
- OTTO SANDER, actor "Wings of Desire", "Das Boot"
- JERRY G. BISHOP, TV horror host "Svengoolie"
- RICHARD C. SARAFIAN, director "Vanishing Point", "Bound"
- JAY ROBINSON, actor "Dr. Shrinker", "Star Trek - Elaan of Troyius"
- TOM CLANCY, author "Patriot Games", "The Hunt for Red October"
- PHIL CHEVRON, musician "The Pogues"
- CAL SMITH, singer "Country Bumpkin"
- KUMAR PALLANA, actor "The Royal Tenenbaums"
- SCOTT CARPENTER, astronaut
- DAPHNE CALDER, actress "The Overlanders"
- LOU SCHEIMER, TV producer "Filmation"
- MARCIA WALLACE, actress "The Bob Newhart Show"
- LOU REED, musician "Walk On the Wild Side"
- NIGEL DAVENPORT, actor "A Man For All Seasons", "Dracula (1973)", "Peeping Tom"
- NICK CARDY, comic book artist "Aquaman", "Teen Titans"
- MANFRED ROMMEL, German politician
- SIR JOHN TAVENER, composer
- PAUL MANTEE, actor "Robinson Crusoe on Mars"
- AL PLASTINO, comic book artist "Superman"
- CHICO HAMILTON, jazz drummer
- TONY MUSANTE, actor "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage"
- OLIVER CHEATHAM, singer "Get Down Saturday Night"
- JEAN KENT, actress "The Prince and the Showgirl", "The Haunted Strangler"
- PAUL WALKER, actor "The Fast and the Furious", "Pleasantville"
- TABU LEY ROCHEREAU, singer
- JUNIOR MURVIN, singer "Police and Thieves"
- BARRY JACKSON, actor "Dr. Who - The Armageddon Factor", "Dr. Who - The Romans"
- NELSON MANDELA, activist/politician
- COLIN WILSON, author "Unsolved Mysteries"
- ELEANOR PARKER, actress "The Naked Jungle"
- AUDREY TOTTER, actress "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Medical Center"
- TOM LAUGHLIN, actor "Billy Jack"
- PETER O'TOOLE, actor "The Lion In Winter", "Becket", "Lawrence of Arabia"
- JOAN FONTAINE, actress "Rebecca", "Suspicion"
- RAY PRICE, singer "For the Good Times", "Heartaches By the Number"
- JOHN EISENHOWER, historian/ambassador
- JOHN FORTUNE, comedian "Bird and Fortune"
Portrait of the Grim Reaper by Steve Ring.
1 comment:
As always, a sad reminder of, not only,how the lives of people we've never met in person affect us, but of our own mortality.
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